GRE Word List
QUAINT
pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar
The meaning of the word quaint is pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |