GRE Word List
CYNOSURE
the northern constellation Ursa Minor
The meaning of the word cynosure is the northern constellation Ursa Minor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| crass | gross |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |