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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tundraa level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs
glamoran exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
stemthe main trunk of a plant
anodyneserving to alleviate pain
cohabitto live together as or as if a married couple
ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
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coronera usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
stratifiedformed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata
callusa thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark