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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| conflagration | fire |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |