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 |
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| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| manifestation | the act, process, or an instance of manifesting |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |