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 |
|---|---|
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| decipher | decode |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| replicate | duplicate |