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 |
|---|---|
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |