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 |
|---|---|
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| plait | pleat |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| paramour | lover |