Power Suffixes for Twelfth Grade Students: -esque

Learn these words ending with the suffix -esque, meaning "in the style of."
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  1. burlesque
    a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor
  2. picturesque
    suggesting or suitable for an artistic composition
  3. grotesque
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
  4. arabesque
    position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind
  5. kafkaesque
    having a surreal, nightmarish, and oppressive quality
  6. picaresque
    (of fiction) involving clever rogues or adventurers
  7. arboresque
    resembling a tree in form and branching structure
  8. sculpturesque
    resembling a three-dimensional work of plastic art
  9. statuesque
    suggestive of a sculpture representing a human or animal
  10. Romanesque
    an architectural style of 11th- and 12th-century Western Europe
Created on Fri May 30 15:22:40 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 15:40:43 EDT 2025)

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