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 |
|---|---|
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| avid | characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit : very eager and enthusiastic |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| reek | smoke |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |
| billow | wave |