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 |
|---|---|
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| cataclysm | flood |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |