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 |
|---|---|
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| dire | exciting horror |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| grate | grating |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |