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 |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| stringent | tight |