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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| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| gnarl | snarl |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |