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.
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| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| fabricate | invent |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| gargantuan | tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |