GRE Word List
BETOKEN
to typify beforehand : presage
The meaning of the word betoken is to typify beforehand : presage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| dart | a light spear |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| 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 |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |