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 |
|---|---|
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| 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") |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |