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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rejoinderthe defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication
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inclinedhaving inclination, disposition, or tendency
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abstinencethe practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable