GRE Word List
BRAND
a charred piece of wood
The meaning of the word brand is a charred piece of wood.
Random words
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blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
douse | to plunge into water |
insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |