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 |
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| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |