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 |
|---|---|
| meander | a winding path or course |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
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| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
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| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |