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 |
|---|---|
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| writ | something written : writing |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| ponderous | of very great weight |