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 |
|---|---|
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| viand | an item of food |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| encumber | weigh down |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |