GRE Word List
GENRE
a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
The meaning of the word genre is a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| billow | wave |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |