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 |
|---|---|
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |