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 |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| forlorn | bereft |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |