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 |
|---|---|
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| overwhelm | upset |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
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| spate | freshet |