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 |
|---|---|
| calculated | apt |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |