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 |
|---|---|
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| guy | man |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| exude | to ooze out |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |