GRE Word List
ANECDOTE
a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
The meaning of the word anecdote is a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| equestrian | of, relating to, or featuring horseback riding |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| haggard | not tamed |