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 |
|---|---|
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| viand | an item of food |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |