GRE Word List
PREMONITORY
giving warning
The meaning of the word premonitory is giving warning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imbue | endow |
| motley | variegated in color |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |