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 |
|---|---|
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| swill | wash |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| shambles | a meat market |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |