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

WordMeaning
obeisancea movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow
imbibedrink
abominateto hate or loathe intensely : abhor
obligatorybinding in law or conscience
opalescentreflecting an iridescent light
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
laxloose
importto bring from a foreign or external source: such as
fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
retrogradehaving or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars