GRE Word List
DIVA
prima donna
The meaning of the word diva is prima donna.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |