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 |
|---|---|
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| cryptic | secret |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |