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 |
|---|---|
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| potentate | ruler |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| tyranny | oppressive power |