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GRE Word List - 109

1. enumerate - To name one by one.

2. epic - A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.

3. epicure - One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.

4. Epicurean - Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.

5. epicycle - A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.

6. epicycloid - A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle.

7. epidemic - Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region.

8. epidermis - The outer skin.

9. epigram - A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.

10. epilogue - The close of a narrative or dramatic poem.

11. epiphany - Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.

12. episode - An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it.

13. epitaph - An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead.

14. epithet - Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".

15. epitome - A simplified representation.

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