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 |
|---|---|
| postulate | demand |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| slake | subside |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |