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 |
|---|---|
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |