GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| viable | capable of living |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| scintilla | spark |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |