GRE Word List
DILIGENCE
steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity
The meaning of the word diligence is steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |