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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |