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 |
|---|---|
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| rotunda | a round building |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |