GRE Word List
SATIRE
a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
The meaning of the word satire is a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| guileless | innocent |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| cipher | zero |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |