GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |