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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atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
raffle | to engage in a raffle |
satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
knoll | a small round hill : mound |
debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |