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

WordMeaning
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
commemorateto call to remembrance
inconsistencyan instance of being inconsistent
cohereto hold together firmly as parts of the same mass
poignancythe quality or state of being poignant
perpetualcontinuing forever : everlasting
lexicographeran author or editor of a dictionary
earmarka mark of identification on the ear of an animal
itineranttraveling from place to place