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 |
|---|---|
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| doddering | feeble |
| finery | ornament |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |