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 |
|---|---|
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| giddy | dizzy |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| bookish | of or relating to books |