GRE Word List
NOVA
a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years
The meaning of the word nova is a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| sentinel | sentry |