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 |
|---|---|
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |