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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| forebears | ancestor |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| lax | loose |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |