GRE Word List
QUIZZICAL
comically quaint
The meaning of the word quizzical is comically quaint.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |