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 |
|---|---|
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |