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 |
|---|---|
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |