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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WordMeaning
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infinitesimalimmeasurably or incalculably small
desultorymarked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
battaliona considerable body of troops organized to act together : army
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
takeoffa 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
primaloriginal
fraughtfull of or accompanied by something specified