GRE Word List
BURLESQUE
a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
The meaning of the word burlesque is a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| peerless | matchless |