GRE Word List
NOCTURNAL
of, relating to, or occurring in the night
The meaning of the word nocturnal is of, relating to, or occurring in the night.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expatriate | banish |
| replicate | duplicate |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |