GRE Word List
COMBUSTIBLE
capable of combustion
The meaning of the word combustible is capable of combustion.
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| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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