GRE Word List
ARCHETYPE
the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype
The meaning of the word archetype is the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| overweening | arrogant |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |