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 |
|---|---|
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |