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.

agnate \ag-neyt\, noun

1. A relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.

2. Any male relation on the father's side.

adjective:

1. Related or akin through males or on the father's side.

2. Allied or akin.

It was considered abomination; no agnate gives up its infant kin in Igboland, no matter the crime.

-- M. O. Ené, Blighted Blues

His uncle in the third segment was the only other agnate who shared patriotic sentiments with Yat-Kuan.

-- Saikaku Ihara, Tales of Japanese Justice

Agnate is derived from the Latin word agnatus which referred to paternal kinsmen.

aperçu \a-per-SY\, noun

1. A hasty glance; a glimpse.

2. An immediate estimate or judgment; understanding; insight.

3. An outline or summary.

Dr. Lornier, if you would be kind enough to give us a summary of your accomplishments and an aperçu of your plans for the next two months.

-- Mona Risk, To Love a Hero

He was going to lecture that afternoon on Prosperity and, since I was unable to go to the lecture, he was good enough to give me an aperçu of the situation.

-- Ford Madox Ford, It Was the Nightingale

Aperçu literally means "perceived" in French. It entered English in the 1820s.