GRE Word List
ELEGY
a poem in elegiac couplets
The meaning of the word elegy is a poem in elegiac couplets.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| antecede | precede |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |