GRE Word List
CANTATA
a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment
The meaning of the word cantata is a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| disport | sport |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |