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 |
|---|---|
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |