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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| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
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| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |