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 |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |