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 |
|---|---|
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| annuity | a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |