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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| append | attach |
| peerless | matchless |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |