GRE Word List
ANTIQUITY
ancient times
The meaning of the word antiquity is ancient times.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| reverberate | reflect |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| exquisite | marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |