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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| Word | Meaning |
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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 |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| decipher | decode |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| calorific | caloric |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| retrench | cut down |