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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nauseateto become affected with nausea
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elaborationplanned or carried out with great care
truncateto shorten by or as if by cutting off
ironicrelating to, containing, or constituting irony
congruencethe quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent
contusioninjury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise
jauntysprightly in manner or appearance : lively
pulsethe regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart
provincialthe superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order