GRE Word List
CONFLAGRATION
fire
The meaning of the word conflagration is fire.
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| baroque | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent especially in the 17th century that is marked generally by use of complex forms, bold ornamentation, and the juxtaposition of contrasting elements often conveying a sense of drama, movement, and tension |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
| 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 |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |