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 |
|---|---|
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |