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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
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| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |