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 |
|---|---|
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |