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 |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| malediction | curse |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |