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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WordMeaning
clamornoisy shouting
reciteto repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
profligatewildly extravagant
wispya small handful (as of hay or straw)
lanknot well filled out : slender
refractiondeflection 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
provincialthe superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order
bleakexposed and barren and often windswept
concurrentoperating or occurring at the same time
defalcatededuct