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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| docile | easily taught |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |