GRE Word List
DIURNAL
active chiefly in the daytime
The meaning of the word diurnal is active chiefly in the daytime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| minuscule | very small |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |