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 |
|---|---|
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |