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 |
|---|---|
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |