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 |
|---|---|
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| spare | not being used |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |