GRE Word List
EUPHEMISM
the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
The meaning of the word euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| mogul | an Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin |