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

WordMeaning
harbingersomething that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
filthfoul or putrid matter
puckerto become wrinkled or constricted
ornithologista branch of zoology dealing with birds
conteststrive
galaxymilky way galaxy
direexciting horror
procurementthe act or process of procuring
retrogradehaving or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars
preento groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland