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 |
|---|---|
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| dart | a light spear |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| fester | to generate pus |