GRE Word List
DIADEM
crown
The meaning of the word diadem is crown.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| hap | happening |
| censor | a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as |
| lunar | crescent |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |