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 |
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| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |