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 |
|---|---|
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |