GRE Word List
QUIZZICAL
comically quaint
The meaning of the word quizzical is comically quaint.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |