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 |
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| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| therapeutic | of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods : curative |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |