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 |
|---|---|
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |