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 |
|---|---|
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| boor | peasant |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| devious | wandering |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |