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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |