GRE Word List
ECLECTIC
composed of elements drawn from various sources
The meaning of the word eclectic is composed of elements drawn from various sources.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| stringent | tight |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| digression | the 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 |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| diadem | crown |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |