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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| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |