GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| trenchant | keen |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |