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 |
|---|---|
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |