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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| dingy | dirty |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| dynamo | generator |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| condign | deserved |