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 |
|---|---|
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| auroral | dawn |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |