GRE Word List
EPITOME
a typical or ideal example : embodiment
The meaning of the word epitome is a typical or ideal example : embodiment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| crochet | needlework consisting of the interlocking of looped stitches formed with a single thread and a hooked needle |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |