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 |
|---|---|
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| wont | accustomed |
| haggard | not tamed |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| debonair | suave |