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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
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