GRE Word List
QUIZZICAL
comically quaint
The meaning of the word quizzical is comically quaint.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |