GRE Word List
PALEONTOLOGY
a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains
The meaning of the word paleontology is a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains.
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| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
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| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| culmination | the action of culminating |