GRE Word List
STEREOTYPE
one regarded as embodying a set image or type; fixed and unvarying representation; standardized mental picture often reflecting prejudice; Ex. stereotype of the happy slave; V: make a stereotype of; represent by a stereotype; Ex. It is wrong to stereotype people; Ex. stereotyped answer
The meaning of the word stereotype is one regarded as embodying a set image or type; fixed and unvarying representation; standardized mental picture often reflecting prejudice; Ex. stereotype of the happy slave; V: make a stereotype of; represent by a stereotype; Ex. It is wrong to stereotype people; Ex. stereotyped answer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dorsal | relating to the back of an animal; Ex. dorsal fin |
| wiggle | wriggle; move from side to side with irregular twisting motions |
| recount | narrate or tell (a story); count over again |
| litany | supplicatory prayer; prayer in which the priest calls out and the people replies in the same words |
| podiatrist | doctor who treats ailments of the feet; chiropodist; N. podiatrics |
| maxim | proverb; truth pithily stated |
| sheathe | place into a case; insert into or provide with a sheath; Ex. He sheathed his dagger; N. sheath: case for a blade |
| calculated | deliberately planned; likely |
| secrete | conceal; hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism; CF. secretive |
| battalion | army unit made up of four or more companies |
