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 |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| quench | put out |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| residual | remainder |
| apoplexy | stroke |