GRE Word List

BETOKEN

to typify beforehand : presage

The meaning of the word betoken is to typify beforehand : presage.

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WordMeaning
engrossto copy or write in a large hand
hivea container for housing honeybees
gloss_overexplain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults
swelterto suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat
indisputablenot disputable : unquestionable
antiqueexisting since or belonging to earlier times : ancient
takeoffa 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
gyroscopea 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
amputateto remove by or as if by cutting
fanciedimagined or believed to be true or real