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 |
|---|---|
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| ploy | escapade |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |