GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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tint | a usually slight or pale coloration : hue |
materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
implication | something implied: such as |
knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |