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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| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |