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 |
|---|---|
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |