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 |
|---|---|
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| query | question |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |