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
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| commune | talk over |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |