GRE Word List
FOREBODING
the act of one who forebodes
The meaning of the word foreboding is the act of one who forebodes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cataclysm | flood |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
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