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 |
|---|---|
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |