Choose the correct word which can substitute the given phrase from the options given below.
An inscription on a tomb-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Epitaph
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Espionage | the practice of spying to obtain secret information, usually about a country or a company | The engineer was arrested on charges of espionage. |
| (2) Epilogue | a section at the end of a book or play that comments on what has happened (it is not written on a tomb) | The epilogue tells us what became of the characters ten years later. |
| (3) Epitaph (answer) | a short piece of writing in memory of a dead person, cut on the tomb or gravestone | The epitaph on his grave read, "He lived for others." |
| (4) Elegy | a sad poem written in memory of someone who has died (it mourns the dead person but is not an inscription on the tomb) | Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a famous English poem. |