GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overwhelm | upset |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unsavory | insipid |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |