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
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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |