GRE Word List
GROTESQUE
a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
The meaning of the word grotesque is a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brazen | made of brass |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |