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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| annuity | a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |