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 |
|---|---|
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| paradigm | example |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |