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.
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| 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 |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |