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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| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |