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 |
|---|---|
| lout | to bow in respect |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |