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 |
|---|---|
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| rank | relative standing or position |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |