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 |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |