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 |
|---|---|
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |