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 |
|---|---|
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |