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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| contest | strive |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |