GRE Word List
ANACHRONISM
an error in chronology
The meaning of the word anachronism is an error in chronology.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| crass | gross |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |