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 |
|---|---|
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |