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 |
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| retaliate | to return like for like |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| significant | having meaning |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |