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 |
|---|---|
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |