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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| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |