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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| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |