GRE Word List
CHRONICLE
a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation
The meaning of the word chronicle is a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation.
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| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
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| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |