GRE Word List
PROPITIOUS
favorable; auspicious; advantageous; fortunate; Ex. propitious day/sign
The meaning of the word propitious is favorable; auspicious; advantageous; fortunate; Ex. propitious day/sign.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insomnia | wakefulness; inability to sleep |
| graduate | arrange into categories or grades; divide into marked intervals (for use in measurement); Ex. graduated ruler |
| ambience | environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
| harangue | long, passionate, and vehement speech; V. |
| retroactive | taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future |
| dichotomy | division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
| evanescent | fleeting; vanishing; soon disappearing; V. evanesce |
| amenable | obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests |
| subpoena | writ(written command issued by a court) summoning a witness to appear in court; V: summon with a subpoena |
| conduit | aqueduct; passageway for fluids |