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.
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| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |