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 |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| perforate | to make a hole through |