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 |
|---|---|
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| engender | beget |