GRE Word List
ONUS
burden; responsibility
The meaning of the word onus is burden; responsibility.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| existential | pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of existentialism |
| ascertain | find out for certain; make certain |
| rebuke | scold harshly; criticize severely |
| prodigious | enormous; marvelous; extraordinary; Ex. prodigious amount/memory |
| sanguine | optimistic; cheerful; hopeful; of the color of blood; red |
| mulct | defraud a person of something; swindle; Ex. mulct the boy of his legacy |
| putrid | decayed and foul-smelling; foul; rotten; decayed; N. putridity |
| kinetic | producing motion; of motion |
| litigation | lawsuit; N. litigant: one party in a lawsuit; V. litigate |
| integrate | make whole; combine; make into one unit |
