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 |
|---|---|
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| enhance | heighten |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| pedagogue | teacher |