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 |
|---|---|
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| categorical | absolute |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |