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 |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| politic | political |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |