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 |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| eventual | contingent |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| shack | hut |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |