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 |
|---|---|
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| modish | fashionable |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |