GRE Word List
MISGIVINGS
a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event
The meaning of the word misgivings is a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event.
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| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
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| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |