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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bacchanaliaa Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry
conventionalformed by agreement or compact
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
overbearingtending to overwhelm : overpowering
purchaseto obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy
zephyra breeze from the west
enunciateto make a definite or systematic statement of
propoundto offer for discussion or consideration
vertebrateany of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life
clefta space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure