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 |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |