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 |
|---|---|
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| whimsy | whim |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| microcosm | a little world |