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 |
|---|---|
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| filigree | ornamental work especially of fine wire of gold, silver, or copper applied chiefly to gold and silver surfaces |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |