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 |
|---|---|
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |