TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 17-Jul-12
If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web. 17-Jul-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists presage [ n. PRES-ij; v. PRES-ij, pri-SEYJ ] [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. (n.) an omen, prediction or intuition 2. (tr. v.) to predict, warn or foretell 3. (intr. v.) to have a premonition or to foretell USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : Hearing the presage sent chills down everyone's spines. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : Our members also have wider concerns that the new council will presage further cuts in funding for physical sciences and the early haemorrhage of key staff from the research councils concerned. BBC, UK physics funding to be revamped, 25 July 2006 vanguard [ VAN-gahrd ] [ noun ...