GRE Word List
PRESCIENCE
foreknowledge of events:
The meaning of the word prescience is foreknowledge of events:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| wanton | merciless |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| edifice | building |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |