GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dull | tedious |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |