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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| primal | original |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |