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 |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |