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 |
|---|---|
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| foliage | a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches for architectural ornamentation |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |