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 |
|---|---|
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| irate | roused to ire |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |