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 |
|---|---|
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| skimp | skimpy |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |