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 |
|---|---|
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |