GRE Word List
PROGNOSTICATE
to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict
The meaning of the word prognosticate is to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| 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 |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |