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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
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| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
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| eventual | contingent |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| din | a loud continued noise |