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 |
|---|---|
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| fervid | very hot : burning |