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 |
|---|---|
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| leery | suspicious |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |