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 |
|---|---|
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| prong | fork |
| fiend | devil |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |