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 |
|---|---|
| doddering | feeble |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |
| charlatan | quack |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |