GRE Word List
DETONATION
the action or process of detonating
The meaning of the word detonation is the action or process of detonating.
Random words
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|---|---|
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| impinge | encroach |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| preamble | an introductory statement |