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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |