GRE Word List
IGNITE
to set afire
The meaning of the word ignite is to set afire.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| nib | bill |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |