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 |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| bohemian | a native or inhabitant of Bohemia |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |