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 |
|---|---|
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| provident | frugal |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |