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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |