GRE Word List
CORPUS
the body of a human or animal especially when dead
The meaning of the word corpus is the body of a human or animal especially when dead.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |