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 |
|---|---|
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| clown | farmer |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |