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 |
|---|---|
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| junket | trip |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |