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 |
|---|---|
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |