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 |
|---|---|
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| peerless | matchless |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |