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 |
|---|---|
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| welter | writhe |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |