GRE Word List

ONUS

burden

The meaning of the word onus is burden.

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WordMeaning
dulltedious
ambleto go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter
sleightdeceitful craftiness
knolla small round hill : mound
collationa light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper
lucremonetary gain : profit
impiousnot pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent
torpora state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
presumptuousoverstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties
bizarrestrikingly out of the ordinary: such as