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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|---|---|
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| retrench | cut down |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
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