GRE Word List
ORATORIO
a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery
The meaning of the word oratorio is a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |