GRE Word List
DIURNAL
active chiefly in the daytime
The meaning of the word diurnal is active chiefly in the daytime.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shack | hut |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
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| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |