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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |