GRE Word List
PREDECESSOR
one that precedes
The meaning of the word predecessor is one that precedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| calorific | caloric |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |