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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|---|---|
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| lugubrious | mournful |