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 |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| passe | past one's prime |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |