GRE Word List
STANZA
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
The meaning of the word stanza is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
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| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
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| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
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