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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| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| antecede | precede |