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 |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| expatriate | banish |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |