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 |
|---|---|
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |