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 |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| freebooter | pirate |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |