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.

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WordMeaning
warrena place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant)
feasiblecapable of being done or carried out
burlesquea literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
analgesiainsensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
quibbleto evade the point of an argument by caviling about words
sobernot intoxicated
precipitantprecipitate
raga waste piece of cloth
debilitateto impair the strength of : enfeeble
spawnto deposit or fertilize spawn