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 |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |