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 |
|---|---|
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| calorific | caloric |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |