GRE Word List
MADRIGAL
a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form
The meaning of the word madrigal is a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| headlong | headfirst |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| aloft | at or to a great height |