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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| prank | trick |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| acclaim | applaud |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |