GRE Word List
FUSION
the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat
The meaning of the word fusion is the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat.
Random words
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| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| auroral | dawn |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |