GRE Word List
LEGACY
a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest
The meaning of the word legacy is a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| 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 |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |