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 |
|---|---|
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| impuissance | weakness |