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 |
|---|---|
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |