GRE Word List
DIADEM
crown
The meaning of the word diadem is crown.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |