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 |
|---|---|
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |