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 |
|---|---|
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| pilfer | steal |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |