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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abdicateto renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function
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rightfuljust
sanguinarybloodthirsty
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facultyability
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archetypethe original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype
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