GRE Word List

PREFIGURE

to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness

The meaning of the word prefigure is to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness.

Random words

WordMeaning
peddleto travel about with wares for sale
direexciting horror
lividdiscolored by bruising : black-and-blue
transposeto change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of
stampedea wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals
basethe bottom of something considered as its support : foundation
inimicalbeing adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence
ornithologista branch of zoology dealing with birds
pachydermany of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin
dispatchto send off or away with promptness or speed