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 |
|---|---|
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |