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
responsivenessgiving response : constituting a response : answering
fanciedimagined or believed to be true or real
bewitchto influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft
deterrentserving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter
marginalwritten or printed in the margin of a page or sheet
obituarya notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account
cringeto recoil in distaste
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
contrivedhaving an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial
buffoona ludicrous figure : clown