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 |
|---|---|
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |