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 |
|---|---|
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| wont | accustomed |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| poise | balance |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |