GRE Word List
COGNATE
of the same or similar nature : generically alike
The meaning of the word cognate is of the same or similar nature : generically alike.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| sophist | philosopher |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |