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 |
|---|---|
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| colloquy | conversation |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| charlatan | quack |