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 |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |