GRE Word List
CANTO
one of the major divisions of a long poem
The meaning of the word canto is one of the major divisions of a long poem.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| document | proof |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |