GRE Word List
PASTICHE
a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work
The meaning of the word pastiche is a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |