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 |
|---|---|
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |