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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |