GRE Word List
DIVA
prima donna
The meaning of the word diva is prima donna.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| lewd | obscene |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| motley | variegated in color |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| 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 |