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 |
|---|---|
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| provident | frugal |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |