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 |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| lode | waterway |
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