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 |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |