GRE Word List
ANACHRONISM
an error in chronology
The meaning of the word anachronism is an error in chronology.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |