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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| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| seasonable | suitable to the season or circumstances : timely |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
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