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 |
|---|---|
| actuary | clerk |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| eventual | contingent |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |