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 |
|---|---|
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| cursive | running |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |