GRE Word List
AQUILINE
curving like an eagle's beak
The meaning of the word aquiline is curving like an eagle's beak.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
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| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| paradigm | example |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ยน/โโ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |