GRE Word List
FIREBRAND
a piece of burning wood
The meaning of the word firebrand is a piece of burning wood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| 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") |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |