GRE Word List
FIREBRAND
a piece of burning wood
The meaning of the word firebrand is a piece of burning wood.
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|---|---|
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
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| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| paradigm | example |
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| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |