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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| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| ebullient | boiling |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |