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.

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compromisesettlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions
sanguinemarked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic
institutesomething that is instituted: such as
provincialthe superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order
baubletrinket
besmirchto cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully
remunerativeserving to remunerate
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
tacitexpressed or carried on without words or speech
edicta proclamation having the force of law