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 |
|---|---|
| biennial | occurring every two years |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |