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 |
|---|---|
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| poise | balance |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| abnegation | denial |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |