GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| dingy | dirty |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| junket | trip |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |