GRE Word List
BETOKEN
to typify beforehand : presage
The meaning of the word betoken is to typify beforehand : presage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| expatriate | banish |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |