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 |
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intermediary | mediator |
disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
statutory | of or relating to statutes |
disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |