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 |
|---|---|
| cubicle | a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |