GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| sublimate | sublime |
| outgoing | going away : departing |