GRE Word List
DIVERSION
the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation
The meaning of the word diversion is the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |