GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravenous | rapacious |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |