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 |
|---|---|
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |