GRE Word List
PREAMBLE
an introductory statement
The meaning of the word preamble is an introductory statement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |