GRE Word List
PREFIGURE
to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness
The meaning of the word prefigure is to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| significant | having meaning |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| cipher | zero |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| fluke | flatfish |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |