GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
overwhelm | upset |
fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
rational | having reason or understanding |
ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |