GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| categorical | absolute |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |