GRE Word List
HINDSIGHT
perception of the nature of an event after it has happened
The meaning of the word hindsight is perception of the nature of an event after it has happened.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| espouse | marry |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |