GRE Word List
DIADEM
crown
The meaning of the word diadem is crown.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| 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 |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| deify | to make a god of |