GRE Word List
BETOKEN
to typify beforehand : presage
The meaning of the word betoken is to typify beforehand : presage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| indisputable | not disputable : unquestionable |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |