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 |
|---|---|
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |