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 |
|---|---|
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| provenance | origin |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| charlatan | quack |