GRE Word List
LEGEND
a story coming down from the past
The meaning of the word legend is a story coming down from the past.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| concur | to express agreement |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |