GRE Word List
NEBULOUS
of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular
The meaning of the word nebulous is of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular.
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dingy | dirty |
prattle | prate |
miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
slew | a large number |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
purported | reputed |