GRE Word List
PRECLUDE
to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
The meaning of the word preclude is to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| demure | reserved |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |