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 |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| hover | to position (a computer cursor) over something (such as an image or icon) without selecting it |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |