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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| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| leave-taking | departure |
| imbibe | drink |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |