GRE Word List

CONFLAGRATION

fire

The meaning of the word conflagration is fire.

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ruminateto go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
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startto move suddenly and violently : spring
excerpta passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract
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sparseof few and scattered elements
nondescriptbelonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described
vociferousmarked by or given to vehement insistent outcry