GRE Word List
INDUSTRIOUS
constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent
The meaning of the word industrious is constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |