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 |
|---|---|
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| skimp | skimpy |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |