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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| contrive | devise |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| 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 |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |