GRE word list

agemate \EYJ-meyt\, noun

A person of about the same age as another.

She tolerates the family, especially an agemate named Isabelle, although they kid her about getting letters from a mysterious swain every day.

-- Faye Moskowitz, Her face in the Mirror

She had no agemate in that house, no one she could think of as an ally.

-- Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

Agemate entered English in the late 1500s when the word mate meant "guest" in Old English.

GRE Word of the Day

veloce \ve-LAW-che\, adjective:

Played at a fast tempo.

And when I tired of reading I would swim in my pool, parting the azure blue water like a veloce human knife.

-- Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity

Ah, I mention his name and your eyes, they light up veloce come un razzo—fast as a rocket.

-- Jacquie D'Alessandro, Summer at Seaside Cove

Veloce stems from the Latin word velocem which was the accusative form of velox meaning "quick."