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 |
|---|---|
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| hortatory | hortative |