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 |
|---|---|
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |