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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| amend | to put right |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| potentate | ruler |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |