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 |
|---|---|
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| acetic | vinegary |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |