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Vocabulary Set F1
portent-primeval
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| precocious | adj. Having the mental faculties prematurely developed. | For a young kid, he's very precocious from the standpoint of being a professional musician. |
| prescient | adj. Foreknowing. | The book turned out to be greatly prescient as recent events have shadowed its plot. |
| pretentious | adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display. | Debra's writing style was so pretentious that it grates on anyone who has to read her reports. |
| primeval | adj. Belonging to the first ages. | I have difficulty believing the glory we know as life arose from a primeval soup, especially when considering it is all a theory with no hard evidence to support it. |
| portent | n. Anything that indicates what is to happen. | He took the terrible morning as a portent of how the rest of the day would go. |