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 |
|---|---|
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| natal | native |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |