GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |