GRE Word List

AURORAL

dawn

The meaning of the word auroral is dawn.

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centigraderelating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point
assertto state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively
nostruma medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness
indulgeto yield to the desire of : humor
stolidhaving or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional
miscellaneousconsisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
gastronomythe art or science of good eating
hackneyedlacking in freshness or originality
crossbreedhybridize