GRE Word List

DIADEM

crown

The meaning of the word diadem is crown.

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personablepleasant or amiable in person : attractive
corroborateto support with evidence or authority : make more certain
annealto heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle
gyroscopea 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
pastoralof, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen
uproariousmarked by uproar
figurinea small carved or molded figure : statuette
dribbleto issue sporadically and in small bits
compliantready or disposed to comply : submissive
enactto establish by legal and authoritative act