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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| clime | climate |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| imprecation | curse |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| agape | wide open : gaping |