GRE Word List
BRAND
a charred piece of wood
The meaning of the word brand is a charred piece of wood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |