GRE Word List
PREMONITION
previous notice or warning : forewarning
The meaning of the word premonition is previous notice or warning : forewarning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |