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 |
|---|---|
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |