GRE Word List
LAMPOON
satire
The meaning of the word lampoon is satire.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| mischance | bad luck |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |