GRE Word List
FOREBODING
the act of one who forebodes
The meaning of the word foreboding is the act of one who forebodes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |