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We think the answer is "ARCHAIC" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- • Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type noun
- • (usually capitalized) a general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘paleo-indian’, ‘paleo-american’, ‘american‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the western hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘woodland’, etc.).
- • (paleoanthropology) (a member of) an archaic variety of homo sapiens. adjective
- • Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
- • (of words) no longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
- • Belonging to the archaic period
An example sentence would be:
- • "The archaic language in this text is difficult to understand."
- • "Many ancient civilizations had their own archaic writing systems."
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