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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| 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 |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| imprecation | curse |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |