GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
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| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |