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 |
|---|---|
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |