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 |
|---|---|
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |