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 |
|---|---|
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |