GRE Word List

AUGURY

divination from auspices (see auspice

The meaning of the word augury is divination from auspices (see auspice.

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inamorataa woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
coincidencethe act or condition of coinciding : correspondence
punctiliousmarked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions
homespunspun or made at home
generalitythe quality or state of being general
peddleto travel about with wares for sale
concavehollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl
levitateto rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
boostto push or shove up from below