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 |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| bauble | trinket |
| refrain | curb |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |