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 |
|---|---|
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| hardy | bold |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| arid | excessively dry |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |