GRE Word List
AUGURY
divination from auspices (see auspice
The meaning of the word augury is divination from auspices (see auspice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| reckon | count |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| pitfall | trap |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |