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 |
|---|---|
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |