GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seasonal | of, relating to, or varying in occurrence according to the season |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| residual | remainder |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |