GRE Word List
CELESTIAL
of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity
The meaning of the word celestial is of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| clique | a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons |
| opus | work |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |