GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| steep | lofty |
| foppish | foolish |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| enhance | heighten |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |