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 |
|---|---|
| arsenal | an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| whittle | a large knife |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |