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 |
|---|---|
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| lax | loose |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| concur | to express agreement |