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 |
|---|---|
| fabricate | invent |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| unfrock | defrock |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |