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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| hap | happening |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |