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 |
|---|---|
| cue | the letter q |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |