GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| ignite | to set afire |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |