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 |
|---|---|
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| demise | death |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| farce | stuff |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |