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 |
|---|---|
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| mulct | fine |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |