GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| refrain | curb |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |