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 |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |