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 |
|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| prong | fork |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |