GRE vocabulary

Idyll

an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.

Example

"Their summer spent by the lake was a perfect idyll."

Etymology

Latin 'idyllium', from Greek 'eidyllion' meaning 'little picture'.

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