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 |
|---|---|
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| brawny | muscular |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |