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 |
|---|---|
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| headlong | headfirst |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |