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 |
|---|---|
| demise | death |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| warranted | sanction |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
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| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |