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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| Word | Meaning |
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| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| politic | political |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |