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 |
|---|---|
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| opus | work |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| aria | air |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |