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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| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |