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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| mortician | undertaker |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| lampoon | satire |