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.