GRE Word List
IGNITE
to set afire
The meaning of the word ignite is to set afire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| stringent | tight |