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 |
|---|---|
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| pummel | pound |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |