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 |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| hubbub | noise |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |