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 |
|---|---|
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |