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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| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |