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 |
|---|---|
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| haggard | not tamed |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |