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 |
|---|---|
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| overweening | arrogant |