GRE Word List

DIVA

prima donna

The meaning of the word diva is prima donna.

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limpidmarked by transparency (see transparent
genusa class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic
unearthto dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume
sourbeing, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice
elegya poem in elegiac couplets
knella stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster)
eschewto avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun
indignationanger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
oustto remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
componenta constituent part : ingredient