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 |
|---|---|
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| viand | an item of food |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |