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 |
|---|---|
| sleek | slick |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |