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 |
|---|---|
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |