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 |
|---|---|
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| contrive | devise |