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 |
|---|---|
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |