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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| retrench | cut down |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| 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 |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |