GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| consort | associate |