GRE Word List
PREDECESSOR
one that precedes
The meaning of the word predecessor is one that precedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| engender | beget |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |