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 |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| exude | to ooze out |