GRE Word List
PREMONITORY
giving warning
The meaning of the word premonitory is giving warning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| replicate | duplicate |
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| forebears | ancestor |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |