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 |
|---|---|
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
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| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
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