GRE Word List
PRELUDE
an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter
The meaning of the word prelude is an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desperate | having lost hope |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| shove | to push along |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |