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 |
|---|---|
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| vertebrate | any 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 |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |