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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |