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 |
|---|---|
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |