GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |