GRE Word List
STANZA
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
The meaning of the word stanza is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| eventual | contingent |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| puerile | juvenile |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |