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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| romp | one that romps |
| medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |