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 |
|---|---|
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |