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 |
|---|---|
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| attentive | mindful |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |