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 |
|---|---|
| misadventure | misfortune |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| nomenclature | name |
| wont | accustomed |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |