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 |
|---|---|
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| mendicant | beggar |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |