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 |
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| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |