GRE Word List
PREDECESSOR
one that precedes
The meaning of the word predecessor is one that precedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| braid | to make from braids |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |