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 |
|---|---|
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |