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.
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| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
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| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| tyranny | oppressive power |