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 |
|---|---|
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| motley | variegated in color |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| sybarite | voluptuary |