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 |
|---|---|
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| refrain | curb |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |