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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |