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 |
|---|---|
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| exegesis | exposition |
| inequity | injustice |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| drivel | nonsense |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| amend | to put right |