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 |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |