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 |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| throes | pang |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |