GRE Word List
CONFLAGRATION
fire
The meaning of the word conflagration is fire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |