GRE Word List
ANACHRONISM
an error in chronology
The meaning of the word anachronism is an error in chronology.
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| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |