GRE Word List

DIRGE

a song or hymn of grief or lamentation

The meaning of the word dirge is a song or hymn of grief or lamentation.

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murkycharacterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
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martyra person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion
rationalean explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
exuberancethe quality or state of being exuberant
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cumbersomeunwieldy because of heaviness and bulk
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