GRE Word List
PREDECESSOR
one that precedes
The meaning of the word predecessor is one that precedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| demerit | offense |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |