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 |
|---|---|
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |