GRE Word List
AQUILINE
curving like an eagle's beak
The meaning of the word aquiline is curving like an eagle's beak.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| raiment | clothing |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |