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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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| paean | a joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph |
| sophist | philosopher |