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 |
|---|---|
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| kismet | fate |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |