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 |
|---|---|
| feint | something feigned |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| stringent | tight |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |