GRE Word List
TRILOGY
a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme
The meaning of the word trilogy is a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |