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.

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cubiclea sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room
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iniquitouscharacterized by iniquity
antediluvianof or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
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yoretime past and especially long past
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