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 |
|---|---|
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| dominate | rule |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |