GRE Word List
PRESENTIMENT
a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
The meaning of the word presentiment is a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| groom | bridegroom |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |