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 |
|---|---|
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| application | an act of applying: |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |