GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |