Wednesday, March 17, 2010

GRE group: Astronomy


  1. Astronomy (n): the scientific study of the sun, moon, stars, planets
    Astronomical (adj): relating to astronomy
                                  :  (of an amount) extremely large
    Analogy: ASTROLOGY: ASTRONOMY:: alchemy: chemistry (Old to new)
  2. Astral (adj): relating to the stars
  3. Aureole (n): sun’s corona; halo
  4. Auroral (adj): pertaining to aurora borealis
  5. Nova (n): Astronomy: a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness and then slowly returning to normal
  6. Constellation (n): a group of stars forming a recognized pattern and typically named after a mythological or other figure
                              : a group of associated people or things
    Analogy: CONSTELLATION: STARS:: mosaic: tile (made up of )

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

galactic:related to galaxy....excessively large