GRE Word List
MENTOR
a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus
The meaning of the word mentor is a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus.
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| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| cipher | zero |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |