mindmap root((PRE)) preclude To make impossible beforehand; prevent.
🌱If we accept this cash offer from the company, that will preclude our joining in the big suit against it with the other investors. 🌳*Preclude* is often used in legal writing, where it usually refers to making something legally impossible. A new law may be passed by Congress to preclude any suits of a certain kind against a federal agency, for example. Some judges have found that the warnings on cigarette packs preclude any suits against the tobacco companies by lung-cancer sufferers. But there are plenty of nonlegal uses as well. Bad weather often precludes trips to the beach, and a lack of cash might preclude any beach vacation at all. precocious Showing the qualities or abilities of an adult at an unusually early age.
🌱Everyone agrees that their seven-year-old daughter is smart and precocious, but she's also getting rather full of herself. 🌳Growing from a child to an adult is like the slow ripening of fruit, and that's the image that gave us *precocious*.The word is based on the Latin verb *coquere*, meaning "to ripen" or "to cook," but it comes most directly from the adjective *praecox*, which means "ripening early or before its time." *Precocity* can occasionally be annoying; but precocious children don't come precooked, only "preripened." predispose 1、 To influence in advance in order to create a particular attitude.
2、 To make one more likely to develop a particular disease or physical condition.
🌱Growing up in a house full of sisters had predisposed her to find her friendships with other women. 🌳*Predispose* usually means putting someone in a frame of mind to be willing to do something. So a longtime belief in the essential goodness of people, for example, will predispose us to trust a stranger. Teachers know that coming from a stable family generally predisposes children to learn. And viewing television violence for years may leave young people with a *predisposition* to accept real violence as normal. The medical sense of the word is similar. Thus, a person's genes may predispose her to diabetes or arthritis, and malnutrition over a long period can predispose you to all kinds of infections. prerequisite Something that is required in advance to achieve a goal or to carry out a function.
🌱In most states, minimal insurance coverage is a prerequisite for registering an automobile. 🌳*Prerequisite* is partly based on *requirere*, the Latin verb meaning "to need or require." So a prerequisite can be anything that must be accomplished or acquired before something else can be done. Possessing a valid credit card is a prerequisite for renting a car. A physical exam may be a prerequisite for receiving a life-insurance policy. And successful completion of an introductory course is often a prerequisite for enrolling in a higher-level course.