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 |
|---|---|
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| ploy | escapade |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |