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 |
|---|---|
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |