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 |
|---|---|
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| dowse | to plunge into water |