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 |
|---|---|
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |