GRE Word List
PRECURSOR
one that precedes and indicates the approach of another
The meaning of the word precursor is one that precedes and indicates the approach of another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |