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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ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
legend | a story coming down from the past |
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meander | a winding path or course |
tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
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