GRE Word List
SONNET
a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
The meaning of the word sonnet is a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
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| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |