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 |
|---|---|
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| dys- | abnormal |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| demented | mad |