GRE Word List
ONEROUS
involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome
The meaning of the word onerous is involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |