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 |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| dilute | attenuate |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |