GRE Word List
COGNIZANCE
a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing)
The meaning of the word cognizance is a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| modish | fashionable |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |