GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| clip | encompass |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |