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 |
|---|---|
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| ebullient | boiling |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |