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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| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
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| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
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| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
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