GRE Word List
ANTIQUATED
outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted
The meaning of the word antiquated is outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| lunar | crescent |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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