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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| defalcate | deduct |