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 |
|---|---|
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |