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 |
|---|---|
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| exhume | disinter |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| dominate | rule |