GRE Word List
ONUS
burden
The meaning of the word onus is burden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| fete | festival |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |