GRE Word List
PREMONITORY
giving warning
The meaning of the word premonitory is giving warning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |