GRE Word List

PRESAGE

something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen

The meaning of the word presage is something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen.

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WordMeaning
circumventto manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
ephemerallasting a very short time
embryonicof or relating to an embryo
seismicof, subject to, or caused by an earthquake
raptlifted up and carried away
goadto incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad
arborealof, relating to, or resembling a tree
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cessiona yielding to another : concession
determinationa judicial decision settling and ending a controversy