GRE Word List
QUIZZICAL
comically quaint
The meaning of the word quizzical is comically quaint.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |