GRE Word List
AUSPICIOUS
showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious
The meaning of the word auspicious is showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |