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 |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| welter | writhe |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| etymology | the 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 |