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 |
|---|---|
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| dull | tedious |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |