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 |
|---|---|
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |