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 |
|---|---|
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |