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 |
|---|---|
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
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| pungent | sharply painful |
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