GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
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| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
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| 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 |