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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| invalid | not valid: |