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 |
|---|---|
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |