GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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|---|---|
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
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