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 |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| exploit | deed |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |