GRE Word List
EPITHET
a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing
The meaning of the word epithet is a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| shove | to push along |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |