GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| demise | death |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| drivel | nonsense |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |