GRE Word List
FORESHADOW
to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure
The meaning of the word foreshadow is to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |