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 |
|---|---|
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| unconscionable | shockingly unfair or unjust |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |