GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| verge | brink |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| distant | separated in space : away |