GRE Word List
PROTAGONIST
the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story)
The meaning of the word protagonist is the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| cunning | dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |