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 |
|---|---|
| determinate | having defined limits |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |