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 |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| sonic | utilizing, produced by, or relating to sound waves |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |