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 |
|---|---|
| concordat | compact |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |