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 |
|---|---|
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| wont | accustomed |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |