GRE Word List
RHAPSODY
a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation
The meaning of the word rhapsody is a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |