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.
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abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
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) |
interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
expenditure | the act or process of expending |
arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |