GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sanction | a formal decree |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| minuscule | very small |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |