GRE Word List
CONFLAGRATION
fire
The meaning of the word conflagration is fire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |