GRE Word List
EPITOME
a typical or ideal example : embodiment
The meaning of the word epitome is a typical or ideal example : embodiment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| concordat | compact |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| pediatrician | a specialist in pediatrics |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| lampoon | satire |