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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
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| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |