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 |
|---|---|
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| significant | having meaning |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |