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 |
|---|---|
| nomenclature | name |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| malediction | curse |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| contest | strive |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
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| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |