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 |
|---|---|
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |