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 |
|---|---|
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
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| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |