GRE Word List
ECLIPSE
the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another
The meaning of the word eclipse is the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |