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 |
|---|---|
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |