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 |
|---|---|
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| cataclysm | flood |