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 |
|---|---|
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |