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 |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |