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 |
|---|---|
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |