GRE Word List
PALEONTOLOGY
a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains
The meaning of the word paleontology is a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contest | strive |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| pliant | pliable |
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |