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.
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| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| 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 |
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