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 |
|---|---|
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| leave-taking | departure |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |