GRE Word List
PROTOTYPE
an original model on which something is patterned : archetype
The meaning of the word prototype is an original model on which something is patterned : archetype.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |