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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| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
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| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
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| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
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