GRE Word List
AQUILINE
curving like an eagle's beak
The meaning of the word aquiline is curving like an eagle's beak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |