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 |
|---|---|
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| junket | trip |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| perforate | to make a hole through |