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 |
|---|---|
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| retribution | recompense |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| amend | to put right |