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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| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| cryptic | secret |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |