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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| obscure | dark |
| abominate | to hate or loathe intensely : abhor |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |