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 |
|---|---|
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
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| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| nourishment | food |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |