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.
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Word | Meaning |
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cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
purge | to clear of guilt |
contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
engender | beget |