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 |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| apprehend | arrest |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |