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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
