GRE Word List
AUSPICIOUS
favoring success; giving signs of future success; Cf. auspices
The meaning of the word auspicious is favoring success; giving signs of future success; Cf. auspices.
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Word | Meaning |
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morose | ill-humored; sullen; sullenly melancholy |
hale | healthy |
innocuous | harmless |
incubus | burden; very worriying problem; mental care; nightmare; male devil; CF. succubus |
blunder | error; stupid mistake |
knave | untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel; jack; N. knavery |
certitude | certainty |
profusion | great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ. profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant |
soothsayer | one who foretells the future |
aspersion | slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on |