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 |
|---|---|
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| demerit | offense |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| tactful | having or showing tact |