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 |
|---|---|
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |