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 |
|---|---|
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| cursive | running |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |