GRE Word List
PROSODY
the study of versification
The meaning of the word prosody is the study of versification.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| raiment | clothing |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |