GRE Word List
HARBINGER
something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
The meaning of the word harbinger is something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |