GRE Word List
TEMPORAL
of or relating to time as opposed to eternity
The meaning of the word temporal is of or relating to time as opposed to eternity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vendetta | blood feud |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| antecede | precede |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |