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 |
|---|---|
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| reek | smoke |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| distant | separated in space : away |