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 |
|---|---|
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| retrench | cut down |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |