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 |
|---|---|
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| demented | mad |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |