GRE Word List
RACONTEUR
a person who excels in telling anecdotes
The meaning of the word raconteur is a person who excels in telling anecdotes.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
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| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |