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 |
|---|---|
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| dart | a light spear |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |