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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |