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 |
|---|---|
| inundate | overwhelm |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| farce | stuff |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |