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 |
|---|---|
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| dint | force |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| retrench | cut down |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |