GRE Word List

OBSIDIAN

a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava

The meaning of the word obsidian is a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava.

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languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
beelinea straight direct course
miscellaneousconsisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
memorialserving to preserve remembrance : commemorative
serendipitythe faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
effaceto eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface
inverseopposite in order, nature, or effect