GRE Word List
IRONY
the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
The meaning of the word irony is the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| lampoon | satire |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |