GRE Word List
DIADEM
crown
The meaning of the word diadem is crown.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| dappled | marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| 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 |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |