GRE Word List
ANACHRONISM
an error in chronology
The meaning of the word anachronism is an error in chronology.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| microcosm | a little world |
| antecede | precede |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |