GRE Word List
PROLOGUE
the preface or introduction to a literary work
The meaning of the word prologue is the preface or introduction to a literary work.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| occident | west |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |