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 |
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hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
encompass | include |
resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |