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 |
|---|---|
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| stench | stink |
| mystic | mystical |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |