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 |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| plait | pleat |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |