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 |
|---|---|
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |