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 |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |