GRE Word List
PROSODY
the study of versification
The meaning of the word prosody is the study of versification.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| contest | strive |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |