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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WordMeaning
incurto become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself
odoroushaving an odor: such as
profaneto treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
sublimeto cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form
verbatimin the exact words : word for word
capillaryresembling a hair especially in slender elongated form
regenta person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign
stoica member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c.
rompone that romps