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 |
|---|---|
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| shambles | a meat market |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| unsavory | insipid |