GRE Word List
CONFLAGRATION
fire
The meaning of the word conflagration is fire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| wanton | merciless |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |