GRE Word List
ANTHOLOGY
a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music
The meaning of the word anthology is a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |