GRE Word List
SOOTHSAYER
a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator
The meaning of the word soothsayer is a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| calculated | apt |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |