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 |
|---|---|
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| 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 |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |