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 |
|---|---|
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| pitfall | trap |
| figment | something made up or contrived |