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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| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
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| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |