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 |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| trance | stupor |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |