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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| rift | fissure |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |