GRE Word List

IDYLL

a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment

The meaning of the word idyll is a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment.

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WordMeaning
magisterialof, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
inundateoverwhelm
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
malefactorone who commits an offense against the law
prudea person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
implausiblenot plausible : provoking disbelief
bludgeona short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon
oddsthe probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances
adventitiouscoming from another source and not inherent or innate