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 |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| lax | loose |
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |