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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| effusion | an act of effusing |