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
animusa usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will
materialisma theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter
inuredto accustom to accept something undesirable
freneticmarked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied
stalematea drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play
prevaricateto deviate from the truth : equivocate
chagrindisquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
conundruman intricate and difficult problem
hiatusa break in or as if in a material object : gap
incrustationa crust or hard coating