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
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| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| 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 |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |