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 |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| circlet | a little circle |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |