GRE VOCAB: CONUNDRUM VS RIDDLE

1. Conundrum (n): a confusing and difficult problem or question.


: A riddle

2. Riddle (n): a question or statement phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning


Quote: I can not forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma. (Sir Winston Churchill).

Riddle (v): make many holes in, especially with gunshot.

GRE vocab: Tools

1. Trowel (n): used to apply and spread mortar or plaster, for lifting plants or earth

2. Anvil (n): a heavy iron block on which metal can be hammered and shaped

3. Awl (n): a small pointed tool used for piercing holes

4. Colander (n): a perforated bowl used to strain off liquid from food.


5. Chisel (n): a long- bladed hand tool used to cut or shape wood, stone, or metal

6. Abacus (n): a frame with rows of wires along which beads are slid, used for calculating

GRE VOCAB: “DIFFERENT TYPES OF POEMS and related words”

1. Ballad (n): a poem or song narrating a popular story in short stanza
      : a slow sentimental or romantic song.
2. Bard (n): a poet, traditionally one reciting epics.
3. Canto (n): each of the sections into which some long poems are divided
4. Doggerel (n): comic verse composed in irregualar rhythm
   : badly written verse or word
   
5. Elegy (n): a mournful poem, typically a lament for the dead.
   
6. Epic (n): a long poem narrating the deeds of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.
7. Verse (n): a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song
8. Epigram (n): a concise and witty saying or remark
   : a short witty poem
   
9. Idyll (n): a short poem or prose work describing a picturesque pastoral scene or incident
   : a blissful or peaceful period or situation
10. Lyric (n): a lyric poem or verse
    : the words of a songs
    (adj): (of poetry) expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
    : (of singing voice) using a light register.
11. Limerick (n): a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba.
    
12. Ode (n): a lyric poem, typically in the form of an address, written in varied or irregular meter.
    : A classical poem of a kind originally meant to be song
13. Prosody (n): The art of versification
    : the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry and its study
14. Sonnet (n): a poem of fourteen lines
    
15. Stanza (n): a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
    
    Verse (n): a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song