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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| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |