GRE Word List
MILLENNIUM
the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation
The meaning of the word millennium is the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |