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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| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
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| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |