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 |
|---|---|
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| polity | political organization |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |