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 |
|---|---|
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| demise | death |