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 |
|---|---|
| occident | west |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |