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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |