GRE Word List
EPOCH
an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development
The meaning of the word epoch is an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |