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 |
|---|---|
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| conflagration | fire |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |