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 |
|---|---|
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |