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 |
|---|---|
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| crochet | needlework consisting of the interlocking of looped stitches formed with a single thread and a hooked needle |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |