GRE Word List
ARCHAEOLOGY
the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities
The meaning of the word archaeology is the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities.
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| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |