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 |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| chafe | irritate |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| 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 |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| prattle | prate |