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 |
|---|---|
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |