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 |
|---|---|
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| auroral | dawn |
| query | question |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |