GRE set 37
Terms
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- projectile
- missile
- prodigal
- wasteful, reckless with money
- precocious
- advanced in development
- primogeniture
- seniority by birth
- presentiment
- anticipatory fear, premonition
- prophetic
- predict future
- profane
- violate, desecrate
- prelate
- church dignitary
- preponderance
- superiority of power, quality
- propellant
- substance that drives or propels forward
- privation
- hardship, want
- pretext
- excuse
- pristine
- primitive, unspoiled
- prevalent
- widespread
- problematic
- doubtful, unsettled
- precept
- practical rule guiding conduct
- profound
- deep
- proliferate
- grow rapidly, multiply, propagate
- prone
- inclined to, prostrate
- prolixity
- verbosity
- prerogative
- privilege
- procurement
- obtaining
- prolific
- abundant, fruitful
- prehensible
- capable of grasping or holding
- prolong
- extend
- precursor
- forerunner
- precipice
- cliff, dangerous position
- prodigious
- marvelous, enormous
- prod
- probe
- preen
- make oneself tidy in appearance
- predicament
- tricky, dangerous situation
- progenitor
- ancestor
- precipitous
- steep, overhasty
- predator
- species that eats other animals, person who robs or exploits others
- precipitate (adj)
- rash, premature, hasty
- prologue
- introduction to a poem or a play
- primp
- groom oneself with care
- prevaricate
- lie
- procastinate
- delay
- propitiate
- appease
- propensity
- natural inclination
- predilection
- partiality, preference
- promiscuous
- mixed indiscriminantly
- primordial
- existing at the beginning of time
- probity
- uprightness, incorruptibility
- prim
- very precise and formal
- precise
- exact
- probe
- explore with tools
- propylactic
- used to prevent disease
- promulgate
- proclaim a doctrine or law
- proclivity
- inclination, natural tendency
- precis
- concise summing up of main points
- prey
- victim
- predecessor
- former occupant of a post
- predetermine
- predestine
- privy
- secret
- preempt
- head off, forestall by acting first
- progeny
- children, offspring
- profligate
- dissipated, wasteful
- promote
- help to flourish, publicize
- premonition
- forewarning
- prestige
- reputation
- propinquity
- nearness, kinship
- prohibitive
- tending to prevent the purchase or use of something
- premonitory
- serving to warn
- prefatory
- introductory
- preclude
- make impossible, eliminate
- promontory
- headland
- preeminent
- outstanding, superior
- premise
- assumption, postulate
- prodigy
- gifted child
- premeditate
- plan in advance
- prescience
- ability to fortell the future
- prominent
- notable, protruding
- presage
- foretell, portend
- prompt
- cause, provoke
- presumptous
- arrogant, taking liberties
- preternatural
- beyond what is natural
- pretentious
- ostentatious
- prevail
- induce, triumph over
- precipitate (v)
- throw headlong, hasten
- profusion
- overabundance
- predispose
- give an inclination towards
- proletarian
- member of the working class, blue collared
- precipitant
- something that causes a substance in a chemical solution to separate out in solid form
- preposterous
- absurd, ridiculous
- prognosis
- prediction, prognosticate