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 |
|---|---|
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| bountiful | liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors |
| betray | to lead astray |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or the intellect |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |