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 |
|---|---|
| primal | original |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |