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 |
|---|---|
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| auroral | dawn |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| impoverish | to make poor |