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 |
|---|---|
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| rift | fissure |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |