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 |
|---|---|
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |