GRE Word List
ARCHAIC
having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses
The meaning of the word archaic is having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |