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 |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |