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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| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |