GRE Word List
AQUILINE
curving like an eagle's beak
The meaning of the word aquiline is curving like an eagle's beak.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| devious | wandering |
| whimsy | whim |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |