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 |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| historic | historical |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |