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 |
|---|---|
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| dynamo | generator |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |