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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |